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Posts tagged with 'p2p' at MetaFilter.Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:59:24 -0800Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:59:24 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Madonna on hacks, music leaks, and attempts to regain controlhttp://www.metafilter.com/145983/Madonna%2Don%2Dhacks%2Dmusic%2Dleaks%2Dand%2Dattempts%2Dto%2Dregain%2Dcontrol
Madonna has had an interesting relationship with leaks, specifically in how she has responded to them. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030801120817/http://www.dotmusic.com/news/April2003/news28986.asp">In 2003, when she was gearing up</a> for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSBwIWaLTCU"><em>American Life</em></a> (YT), she also <a href="http://waxy.org/2003/04/madonnas_p2p_bo/">spread mostly silent MP3s with the short message "What the f**k do you think you're doing?</a> to dissuade would-be downloaders. <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dmca-activists/2003-04/msg00057.html">The message got spun into "remixes"</a> and <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-WTF-The-Madonna-Remix-Project/release/654044">some got pressed to CD</a>. Jump ahead to 2012, and Madonna's album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_f0iWhI4wI"><em>MDNA</em></a> (YT) <a href="http://newsroom.mtv.com/2012/03/20/madonna-mdna-leaks-online/">leaked a week ahead of its release date</a>, which seems pretty minor, compared to what happened this past December. <a href="http://www.sotouk.com/2014/12/madonna-album-iconic-leaks-full/">13 tracks and artwork identifying the album with a title of <em>Iconic</em></a> or <a href="http://genius.com/albums/Madonna/Unapologetic-bitch"><em>Unapologetic B*tch</em> were leaked</a>, ahead of any formal album announcement. But that wasn't the end of it. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/madonna-cries-artistic-rape-and-terrorism-as-new-album-leaks-9932725.html">Madge's initial comments, which were quickly deleted</a>, were inflammatory. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/21/madonna-album-hack-living-state-terror">She talked with The Guardian and clarified her comments</a> and noting that the leaked tracks weren't new, but some of them are back from March 2014.
In an effort to give fans something official, <a href="http://www.madonna.com/news/title/madonna-releases-six-songs-from-new-rebel-heart-album">Madonna released 6 tracks from the officially titled <em>Rebel Heart</em> album</a>. <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6414043/madonna-interview-rebel-heart-leaks-sony-grammys-new-music">She also talked to Billboard</a>, where she discussed how her works still in-progress weren't stored on servers or transferred via Wi-Fi, but hand-delivered on hard drives.
Despite these precautions, <a href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/23142/20141226/14-more-songs-from-madonnas-rebel-heart-album-leaked-online.htm">14 more tracks leaked online</a>, and then another three tracks plus two acoustic demos leaking before the end of the month. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unreleased_songs_recorded_by_Madonna#Rebel_Heart">The Wikipedia list of unreleased songs recorded by Madonna</a> has the full tracklist and timeline, and <a href="http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/madonna-rebel-heart-artwork-tracklist/">Josep Vinaixa/Ultimate Music has a couple handy playlists</a> with streams of all the official tracks and demos/leaks.
But if you're shying away from the audio and want to peak at some reviews and recaps of the songs, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/new-madonna-songs-rebel-heart-review-article-1.2051828">NY Daily Mag covered the six official tracks</a> and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/madonna-leaked-songs-article-1.2059806">a brief overview of the leaked tracks</a>. If you want the detailed summary of the <em>Rebel Heart</em> album production to date, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Heart_%28Madonna_album%29">the Wikipedia page is exhaustive</a>, and growing. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.145983Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:59:24 -0800filthy light thief3 Quarks Daily Philosophy Prize Finalists 2014http://www.metafilter.com/144969/3%2DQuarks%2DDaily%2DPhilosophy%2DPrize%2DFinalists%2D2014
3QD's <a href="http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/12/3qd-philosophy-prize-finalists-2014.html">2014 finalists</a> for best blog posts on philosophical topics: Should animal products have <a href="http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2013/12/the-case-for-ethical-warning-labels-on.html">ethical warning labels</a>? Why is <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/the-dangers-of-certainty/?_r=0">scientific uncertainty</a> a moral responsibility [see <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20ohne_bbc-ascent-of-man-11-knowledge-or-certainty_tv">last 4 mins.</a>]? Should people <a href="http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/12/is-applied-ethics-applicable-enough-acting-under-moral-uncertainty.html">choose probabilistically</a> among competing moral theories? What are some bad ways of arguing about <a href="http://vihvelin.typepad.com/vihvelincom/2014/11/how-not-to-think-about-free-will.html">free will</a>? Are most of us just not good enough to be <a href="http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/11/why-i-am-not-a-utilitarian/">utilitarians</a>? Are <a href="http://aphilosopherstake.com/2013/12/03/moral-responsibility-and-volunteer-soldiers/">volunteer soldiers</a> morally responsible for unjust wars? Do <a href="http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/flickers_of_freedom/2014/08/the-case-for-libertarian-compatibilism-a-brief-overview.html">P2P networks</a> provide a model for something to do with consciousness, reality, and, yep, quantum mechanics? When are <a href="http://psychiatricethics.com/2014/10/05/anosognosia-and-epistemic-innocence-lisa-bortolotti/">delusions</a> good for us (see <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810014001937">also</a>)? What's up with philosophical systems that <a href="https://absoluteirony.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/nagarjuna-nietzsche-rorty-and-their-strange-looping-trick/">knock themselves down</a>, e.g. Nāgārjuna's, Nietzsche's, and Rorty's? There's also an <a href="http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/quarks_prizes.html">archive page</a> for older prizes and other categories (<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/82849/3-Quarks-Dailys-2009-top-three-science-blog-posts">previously</a>). tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144969Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:15:13 -0800Monsieur CautionThe Library as an Economic Model in the Second Machine Agehttp://www.metafilter.com/135923/The%2DLibrary%2Das%2Dan%2DEconomic%2DModel%2Din%2Dthe%2DSecond%2DMachine%2DAge
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fftalphaville.ft.com%2F2014%2F01%2F16%2F1744662%2Fcongress-takes-a-casual-look-at-the-peer-to-peer-economy%2F&ei=Mm3gUp66J4n9oASJ7YLYAQ&usg=AFQjCNFV03CUgZ3MZwxMhfEC_LmitVt4_Q&bvm=bv.59568121,d.cGU">Congress takes a casual look at the peer-to-peer economy</a> - "Finding new ways to monetise <a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2014/01/congress-just-started-caring-about-sharing-economy/8119/">used or existing</a> assets has the obvious and immediate effects of raising their value and the wealth of their owners, while simultaneously <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:smallbusiness.house.gov/uploadedfiles/1-15-2014_revised_auerswald_testimony.pdf">reducing the value of comparable stuff</a> owned by incumbent companies — for whom monetisation already wasn't a problem, and who find themselves burdened by the newly competitive environment. The innovations also provide a surplus to those consumers who previously would have paid more to an incumbent. And all <a href="http://smallbusiness.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=364939">without any new stuff</a> actually having to be made." cf. <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:smallbusiness.house.gov/uploadedfiles/1-15-2014_revised_sundararajan_testimony.pdf">Peer-to-Peer Businesses and the Sharing (Collaborative) Economy: Overview, Economic Effects and Regulatory Issues</a>
<ol><li><u>The consumerization of digital technologies</u>: In the 1980's and 1990's, innovation in digital technologies was driven by the needs of business and government; the needs of consumers were generally an afterthought, met by adapting technologies developed primarily for businesses into consumer products. However, over the last ten to fifteen years, we have witnessed the "consumerization" of information technologies, whereby radical innovation is driven by the needs of consumers rather than of businesses or government. (Social media and mobile technologies provide two recent examples.) This trend is pertinent because it is often the mass-market placing of the capabilities of these new digital technologies (powerful mobile computers, GPS technology) in the hands of millions of consumers that creates the possibility of digitally intermediated peer-to-peer business. It has also led to a growing familiarity: with the idea of platform-enabled peer-to-peer exchange (initially of digital content) among consumers, as well as a greater level of acceptance of the idea of renting rather than ownership as a primary form of consumption (again, initially in markets for digital content).</li>
<li><u>The emergence of "digital institutions"</u>: As a growing fraction of human interaction and exchange is mediated by digital technologies, we have witnessed the emergence of a number of different kinds of "digital institutions": digital technology-based platforms that facilitate economic exchange in the same way that economic institutions historically have done. For example, over the last 15 years, a digital 'reputation system' (which allows buyers and sellers to provide feedback about their transactions) has enabled semi-anonymous peers on the platform eBay to trade assets with each other without being physically collocated or having to relying on traditional business infrastructure. The digital rights management technologies of platforms like Apple's iTunes and Amazon's Kindle are, de facto, subsuming government-mediated intellectual property laws for digital music, video and books. Today, a wide variety of other digital identity verification, reputation and credit scoring systems (which often leverage the real-world social capital that mobile device usage, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social technologies bring online) facilitate trusted economic exchange in hundreds of different peer-to-peer marketplaces.</li>
<li><u>Urbanization and globalization</u>: The U.S.is currently experiencing positive rates of urbanization, and there is also some evidence of a recent trend of migration to more densely populated metropolitan areas. (Worldwide, both these trends are projected to be substantially more pronounced than in the US: the UN estimates that by 2050, the global urban population will double, and about 70% of the world's 9.3 billion people will be city dwellers.) Cities are already natural "sharing economies" – the space constraints and population density of urban living favors consumption that involves access to shared resources over asset ownership. Urban residents have shared their assets and space informally for centuries, but innovative network technologies and social tools have made co-producing, lending, trading and renting assets cheaper and easier than ever before—and therefore possible on a much larger scale.</li>
<li><u>Ecological and resource considerations</u>: Many 'sharing economy' business models facilitate more efficient use of natural and other physical resources. Over time, people's desire to choose 'asset-light' forms of living that utilize fewer resources and lower their ecological footprint is likely to favor peer- cto-peer sharing. Furthermore, the global pressure to rapidly create massive new urban infrastructure may induce city planners to adopt 'sharing economy' approaches less reliant on physical resources and more cost-effective than traditional approaches for managing growth and urbanization.</li></ol>
re: the 'consumerization of digital institutions and reputation systems', here's Marc Andreessen on <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/">Why Bitcoin Matters</a> (viz. the "Napsterization" of finance, payments and the transmission of 'value')
<blockquote>Bitcoin is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the Byzantine Generals Problem... the B.G.P. poses the question of how to establish trust between otherwise unrelated parties over an untrusted network like the Internet.
The practical consequence of solving this problem is that Bitcoin gives us, for the first time, a way for one Internet user to transfer a unique piece of digital property to another Internet user, such that the transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.
What kinds of digital property might be transferred in this way? Think about digital signatures, digital contracts, digital keys (to physical locks, or to online lockers), digital ownership of physical assets such as cars and houses, digital stocks and bonds ... and digital money.
All these are exchanged through a distributed network of trust that does not require or rely upon a central intermediary like a bank or broker. And all in a way where only the owner of an asset can send it, only the intended recipient can receive it, the asset can only exist in one place at a time, and everyone can validate transactions and ownership of all assets anytime they want.</blockquote>
oh and fwiw...
-<a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/bitcoin-20-explained-colored-coins-vs-mastercoin-vs-12475857.html">Beyond Payments: where blockchain technology (Bitcoin protocol) is heading</a>
-<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fftalphaville.ft.com%2F2014%2F01%2F06%2F1733632%2Fthe-path-towards-definancialisation-or-not%2F&ei=KwDhUsyOEcz_oQSKkYGQDg&usg=AFQjCNEGZ8IYMwPqTddX51XYoZsONI7I9g&bvm=bv.59568121,d.cGU">The path towards definancialisation, or not?</a>
-<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDYQqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fftalphaville.ft.com%2F%3Fp%3D1748152&ei=HP_gUpH1ForuoAS3vILYCA&usg=AFQjCNHNsNzDk5ePxD7_6t5MTvAZ-yeFJA&sig2=oSTQWyr0aLYnUPdBQNGHxQ&bvm=bv.59568121,d.cGU">The time for official e-money is NOW</a>
so putting it all together:
<ul><li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/review-the-second-machine-age-by-erik-brynjolfsson-and-andrew-mcafee/2014/01/17/ace0611a-718c-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html">The Second Machine Age</a> - "It's not just that machines can now beat humans in chess or on 'Jeopardy'. It's that when they are combined with thousands of cheap sensors and huge databases... new capabilities and new ideas can be combined and recombined. Economic historians tell us that it took several decades for earlier breakthrough technologies, such as the steam engine or electricity, to reach the point of ubiquity and flexible application at which they fundamentally changed the way people lived and businesses operated. Information technology and digital communication, they argue, are now just reaching that same inflection point."</li>
<li><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/01/economic-revolutions">Economic revolutions: There could be trouble ahead</a> - "What's very important to recognise is that those benefits did not magically arrive of their own accord. It is an article of faith among many economists that technology doesn't lead to widespread unemployment but does make society better off. Historical experience bears that out, but economists can be guilty of forgetting the caveats: it took a long time for society to adjust and an awful lot of intense political fighting to deliver the social reforms needed to make industrialisation work for most people."</li>
<li><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/01/secular-stagnation-1">Secular stagnation: The second best solution</a> - "Income has become concentrated in the hands of groups, like reserve-accumulating foreign governments and the rich, with low propensities to consume, the thinking goes. That has generated excess saving and pushed down real interest rates until they are substantially negative at many durations. That, in turn, has made life very difficult for central banks, which have struggled to stoke up adequate demand with nominal interest rates wedged up against zero."</li></ul>
also btw...
-<a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/01/21/marx_is_back_global_working_class">Marx Is Back: The global working class is starting to unite -- and that's a good thing</a>
-<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/11/what-the-founding-fathers-beli.html">What the Founding Fathers Believed: Stock Ownership for All</a>
-<a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/11/employee-share-ownership">Employee share ownership: Turning workers into capitalists</a>
-<a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/wanted-more-worker-owners/">Wanted: More Worker-Owners</a>
-<a href="http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/the_case_for_working_less">The case for working less</a> (<a href="http://www.t0.or.at/bobblack/abolishw.htm">Workers of the world: <i>relax</i></a> ;)
[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/116465/Linear-Programming-Will-Save-Us-From-the-Invisible-Hand">previously</a>] [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/50942/The-Wealth-of-Networks">previously</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.135923Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:32:34 -0800kliulessDead drop "peer-to-peer" file sharinghttp://www.metafilter.com/132525/Dead%2Ddrop%2Dpeer%2Dto%2Dpeer%2Dfile%2Dsharing
Aram Bartholl <a href="http://datenform.de/blog/dead-drops-preview/">created</a> the first <a href="http://deaddrops.com/">file-sharing dead drops</a> as an art project in <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/97200/Dead-Drops">2010</a>, but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ECz3Z9N6w">since</a> <a href="http://vimeo.com/46480638">then</a> the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242830/Dead_Drops_offline_P2P_file_sharing_network_goes_global">more than 1200 USB dead drops</a> have been <a href="http://deaddrops.com/dead-drops/db-map/">installed around the world</a> (<a href="http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/01/24/28c3-dead-drops/">28c3 talk</a>, <a href="http://deaddrops.com/blog/">blog</a>). Also, <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Wireless-DeadDrop/">WiFi based</a> dead drops called <a href="http://widrop.bzhack.org/">WiDrops</a> offer better security than USB dead drops, <a href="http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/plug-and-prey-malicious-usb-devices">especially for Windows machines</a>, but require <a href="http://deaddrops.com/flying-wifi-drops/">power</a>. As an aside, there are <a href="http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms">USB</a> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/17/chap_unrolls_usb_condom_to_protect_against_viruses/">condoms</a> for when you wish to charge a device off an unfamiliar USB line, but not transfer data. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.132525Thu, 03 Oct 2013 02:07:42 -0800jeffburdgesLive from Tahrir Squarehttp://www.metafilter.com/129673/Live%2Dfrom%2DTahrir%2DSquare
<a href="http://live.bittorrent.com/channel/rt-test">Live from Tahrir Square courtesy BitTorrent Live</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23170441">With</a> <a href="http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/hundreds-thousands-flock-tahrir-hear-army-statement">all</a> the news about the gathering at Tahrir square, here's a live feed not provided by a news organization.
<a href="http://newsblogged.com/live-streaming-video-protests-cairo-egypt-tahrir-square">Although there are other live streams available</a>, what is cool is that it is using a peer-to-peer live streaming technology that makes low latency HD, live feeds available to anybody. More details <a href="http://live.bittorrent.com/">here</a>.
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<small>This is a <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/129668/">repost of an earlier</a> deleted post by user <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/135140">ding-dong</a>, someone I have never met, communicated with, or was even aware of before about fifteen minutes ago. ding-dong works for the originator of this technology; I do not. </small> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129673Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:19:02 -0800itemShareFesthttp://www.metafilter.com/129000/ShareFest
<a href="http://www.sharefest.me/">ShareFest</a> is a "<a href="https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest">One-To-Many sharing application</a>. Serverless. [It] Eliminates the need to fully upload your file to services such as Dropbox or Google Drive. Put your file and start sharing immediately with anyone that enters the page. Pure javascript-based. No plugins needed thanks to HTML5 <a href="http://webrtc.org/">WebRTC Data Channel API</a>." tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129000Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:22:31 -0800mrgrimmHas politics gone peer-to-peer?http://www.metafilter.com/122226/Has%2Dpolitics%2Dgone%2Dpeertopeer
<a href="http://civic.mit.edu/blog/mstem/peer-to-peer-politics">Has politics gone peer-to-peer?</a> A rich 90-minute panel discussion with Steven Johnson, author of "Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked World", featuring Yochai Benkler, Susan Crawford and Lawrence Lessig. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122226Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:27:43 -0800mhjb"If robots had a religion, I think this would be it,"http://www.metafilter.com/114875/If%2Drobots%2Dhad%2Da%2Dreligion%2DI%2Dthink%2Dthis%2Dwould%2Dbe%2Dit
<a href='http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/vote-pirate-notes-from-a-pirate-party-conference.ars'>Vote Pirate!</a> Notes from a Pirate Party conference. "I grew up on the Internet. ... I sort of consider myself a citizen of the Internet. I'm very attached to it. I'm almost more from the Internet than I am from Massachusetts." <a href='http://falkvinge.net/2012/04/09/we-are-winning-how-pirate-parties-are-changing-the-world/'>We Are Winning: How Pirate Parties are Changing the World</a>, by Richard Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party.
<a href='http://www.metafilter.com/101360/Talker-Vote-Like-A-Pirate'>Massachusetts has recognized the Pirate Party</a>, previously on Metafilter. <a href='http://www.metafilter.com/109790/Never-believe-any-copyright-over-five'>The Swedish Pirate Party</a>, also previously. <a href='http://www.metafilter.com/102740/Ahoy-eh'>The Canadian Pirate Party</a>, also previously. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.114875Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:43:40 -0800the man of twists and turnsOneSwarmhttp://www.metafilter.com/112463/OneSwarm
<a href="http://www.oneswarm.org/about.html">OneSwarm</a> is a privacy preserving BitTorrent client that offers&nbsp; permissions for restricting access to shared content&nbsp; and&nbsp; sharing without attribution, with the anonymity being provided by fellow OneSwarm peers routing transfers. There are several interesting use cases outlined in the author's paper "Privacy-Preserving P2P Data Sharing with OneSwarm" (<a href="http://www.michaelpiatek.com/papers/oneswarm_SIGCOMM.pdf">pdf</a>), such as employing permissions to share a photo archive with only a subset of friends, or downloading a security patch without indicating that your machine is currently vulnerable to the patched exploit.
<i>"OneSwarm differs from [previous anonymous peer-to-peer applications] in its support for a spectrum of data-sharing models and peer trust relationships"</i>
There is a <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea">longstanding issue</a> that BitTorrent dislikes the <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor</a> anonymity network. OneSwarm provides sharing without attribution by implementing a Tor-like anonymity network which the authors describe as <i>"new design point in [the] tradeoff between privacy and performance."</i>
<small>I haven't yet worked out whether OneSwarm's routing avoids building a public key infrastructure behind the scenes, much less how much privacy this might sacrifice, but the authors cite the "Slicing the onion" <a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/30564">article</a>.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.112463Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:23:43 -0800jeffburdgesBut the wine and the song, like the seasons, all have gone.http://www.metafilter.com/109973/But%2Dthe%2Dwine%2Dand%2Dthe%2Dsong%2Dlike%2Dthe%2Dseasons%2Dall%2Dhave%2Dgone
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/30/technology/napster_rhapsody/">So long, Napster.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.109973Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:32:58 -0800griphusCode is Lawhttp://www.metafilter.com/109878/Code%2Dis%2DLaw
<a href="http://yacy.net/en/index.html">YaCy</a> is an <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/112811-free-software-activists-to-take-253488.html">open source</a> fully decentralized peer-to-peer search engine <a href="http://yacy.net/en/Philosophy.html">designed</a> prevent any single entity from exercising power <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/">over</a> search results. In related news, the <a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alternative-based-on-bitcoin.html">Namecoin</a> project (<a href="http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page">.bit</a>) has apparently <a href="http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-10-16/Continuing_the_Distributed_DNS_system.html">diverted</a> developer interest away from the <a href="https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/">p2p DNS</a> project (.p2p), which showed so much promise one year ago.
Also, the U.S. has <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-130-domain-names-in-mass-crackdown-111125/">seized</a> another <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/November/11-ag-1540.html">150ish</a> domains this month, roughly 1 year after the seizure of 82 domains that <a href="http://digitizor.com/2010/12/01/the-pirate-bay-co-founder-starting-a-p2p-based-dns-to-take-on-icann/">prompted</a> p2p DNS. Except this round the European Parliament has <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/eu-adopts-resolution-against-us-domains-seziures-111117/">condemned</a> unilateral domain name seizures by the U.S.
<small>Namecoin is heavily based on the Bitcoin source code, but not the block chain that assigns ownership of bitcoins.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.109878Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:42:57 -0800jeffburdgesNever believe any copyright over fivehttp://www.metafilter.com/109790/Never%2Dbelieve%2Dany%2Dcopyright%2Dover%2Dfive
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Andersdotter">Amelia Andersdotter</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Sweden)">Sweden's</a> Pirate <a href="http://www.pp-international.net/">Party</a> (<a href="http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english">Piratpariet</a>) will <a href="http://blog.greenpirate.org/congrats-to-mep-amelia-andersdotter/">finally become</a> the <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-to-join-european-parliament-as-youngest-member-111120/">youngest ever member</a> of the European Parliament this December. <a href="http://www.ameliatillbryssel.se/english">Andersdotter</a> won her seats in <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-gets-second-seat-in-european-parliament-091104/">2009</a>, along with and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Engström">Christian</a> <a href="http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/category/english/">Engström</a>, when the Pirate Party captured <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-wins-and-enters-the-european-parliament-090607/">7%</a> of the vote, but her appointment was <a href="http://euobserver.com/843/114270">delayed</a> by difficulties with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon">Treaty of Lisbon</a>.
As an aside, there is a lovely <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2541736281918823479&hl=en">Google Tech Talk</a> from 2007 by the Pirate Party's founder, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickard_Falkvinge">Rickard</a> <a href="http://falkvinge.net">Falkvinge</a>, which includes a interesting overview of the evolution of early copyright law and prescient insights into big content's current lobbying efforts, ala SOPA. An interesting figure himself, Falkvinge has grown renown for his unusual leadership style, which includes quickly taking responsibility for mistakes and minimizing his own authority in <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2011/08/01/swarmwise-what-is-a-swarm/">favor</a> of <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2011/09/05/cable-reveals-extent-of-lapdoggery-from-swedish-govt-on-copyright-monopoly/">evangelism</a> for the <a href="http://falkvinge.net/pirate-wheel/">party</a>.
There have been a handful of local electoral successes by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International">Pirate Parties</a> in other European nations, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratenpartei_Deutschland">Piratenpartei Deutschland</a> holding <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//wiki.piratenpartei.de/Mandate&hl=en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8">161 municipal seats and 15 state seats in Berlin</a>, but not yet any Bundestag seats (national parliament).
<small>There are a number of young politicians in national parliaments in northern European countries. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lührmann">Anna Lührmann</a> became a member of Germany's Bundestag in 2002 at age 19. <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_M%25C3%25B6ger_Pedersen&ei=LuLNTqmfIsrwggfT9KXuBw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DThor%2BM%25C3%25B6ger%2BPedersen%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Den%26tbas%3D0%26biw%3D1055%26bih%3D626%26prmd%3Dimvnso">Thor Möger Pedersen</a> became Denmark's Minister of Taxes at age 26. Denmark has a 20 year old MP as well.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.109790Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:47:42 -0800jeffburdgesMafiAA cronyism & harassmenthttp://www.metafilter.com/108614/MafiAA%2Dcronyism%2Dand%2Dharassment
A FOIA request by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/103480/That-Syncing-Feeling">Chr</a>i<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/103423/Egg-on-their-Facebooks">sto</a>p<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/87138/8-Million-Reasons-for-Real-Surveillance-Oversight">her</a> <a href="http://paranoia.dubfire.net/">Soghoian</a> revealed that Obama administration officials, including Copyright Czar Victoria Espinel, Biden's deputy chief of staff Alan Hoffman, and criminal prosecutor Lanny Breuer, <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/copyright-czar-cozies-up/">negotiated the deal</a> between ISPs and copyright holders to <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/disrupting-internet-access/">punish subscribers</a> whose IP addresses participated in copyright infringement. Another FOIA by Techdirt has exposed a New York City anti-piracy PSA contest for school kids as being <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110603/02385514537/why-is-federal-government-running-ads-secretly-created-owned-nbc-universal.shtml">directed</a> by NBC Universal, entrants must <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110917/01472315992/nycnbcuniversal-pro-copyright-propaganda-contest-school-kids-facts-not-allowed-your-rights-dont-count.shtml">parrot</a> NBC's talking points and give up their copyright. Techdirt has now launched their own <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/blog/ic/articles/20111006/022808/video-contest-create-psa-video-showing-impact-technology-creativity.shtml">contest</a> that lets entrants present their own opinion.
Gavin "Tex" Warren, an investigator previous employed by anti-piracy group AFACT, the Australian arm of the MPAA's FACT group, discusses <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/private-anti-piracy-investigator-spills-the-beans-111003/">tactics used</a> to manipulate the police and lawmakers, including boosting statistics and linking piracy to drug trafficking.
The Sydney Morning Herald has outed AFACT's sibling the <a href="http://delimiter.com.au/2011/10/01/us-style-mass-piracy-lawsuits-come-to-australia/">Movie Rights Group</a> as being a <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/playing-dirty-in-a-web-of-intrigue-20111018-1lu98.html">pornography bigwigs Matthew and Richard Clapham</a>.
Also, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ACTA">ACTA</a> has been <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/acta-signed-8-members-are-we-doomed-yet">signed</a> by 8 of 11 participants, with the remaining three, the E.U., Mexico, and Switzerland, have issued a joint statement affirming their intention to sign "as soon as practicable". tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.108614Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:12:19 -0800jeffburdgesSix Strikeshttp://www.metafilter.com/105311/Six%2DStrikes
<em> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/major-isps-agree-to-six-strikes-copyright-enforcement-plan.ars">Major US Internet providers—including AT&amp;T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable—have just signed on to a voluntary agreement with the movie and music businesses to crack down on online copyright infringers.</a></em> The policy features a graduated series of responses to infringing activity, ranging from "educational" warnings to throttling of connection speeds. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.105311Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:46:25 -0800Horace RumpoleMoney doesn't grow on trees.http://www.metafilter.com/103644/Money%2Ddoesnt%2Dgrow%2Don%2Dtrees
<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a> is a <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/16/bitcoin-p2p-currency?page=all">peer-to-peer digital currency</a>. Trading at <a href="http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD">eight dollars</a> this week—and being used to pay for everything from <a href="http://ncarlson.com/post/5493803214/bitcoin-experiment-first-job-offer">freelance programming jobs</a> to <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0509/technology-psilocybin-bitcoins-gavin-andresen-crypto-currency.html">magic mushrooms</a>—it has been described as <a href="http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html">"the most dangerous open-source project ever created"</a> and <a href="http://launch.is/blog/l020-is-bitcoin-the-wikileaks-of-monetary-policy.html">"an unambiguous challenge to the government monopoly on the power to print money."</a> Estimated at over <a href="http://bitcoinwatch.com/">20 petaFLOPS</a> the Bitcoin network is currently the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing#Fastest_virtual_supercomputers">fastest virtual supercomputer</a> in the world. <ul>
<li><a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page">Official Wiki</a> (<a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ">FAQ</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin">Wikipedia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf">Original proposal</a> (PDF) by Satoshi Nakamoto</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.bitcoinwatch.com/">Market Analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blockexplorer.com/">Block Explorer</a></li>
</ul>
Previously: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/102519/The-FreeBanking-vs-CentralBanking-Debate">The Free-Banking vs. Central-Banking Debate</a> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.103644Wed, 18 May 2011 14:23:37 -0800howlingmonkeyConflict of interest? What?http://www.metafilter.com/102406/Conflict%2Dof%2Dinterest%2DWhat
Swedish "Pirate" MEP <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Engström">Christian Engström</a> has announced that today or tomorrow <a href="http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/copyright-term-extension-will-be-voted-this-week/">Europe will be voting on extending copyrights for recorded music from 50 years to 95 years</a>. <br><br>
Recently, Engström and Dutch liberal party D66 MEP Marietje Schaake have submitted a <a href="http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/parliamentary-question-on-the-eu-commissions-new-copyright-czar/">formal question</a> to the European Commission on the conflict of interest arising from <a href="http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/ifpi-lobbyist-new-head-of-acta-and-ipred-at-the-eu-commission/">their appointment of Maria Martin-Prat</a>. Martin-Prat has <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/top-music-industry-lawyer-now-eu-copyright-chief.ars">spent years directing 'global legal policy' for IFPI</a>, the global recording industry's London-based trade group, but will now be overseeing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_enforcement_of_intellectual_property_rights">IPRED</a> and the ongoing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement">ACTA</a> proposals (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/90965/ACTA-and-the-Wellington-Declaration">prev</a>i<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/86376/A-secret-treaty-is-bad-news-Im-shocked-shocked">ously</a>). <br><br>
On the other side of the pond, Judge Beryl Howell has <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/riaa-lobbyist-becomes-federal-judge-rules-on-file-sharing-cases.ars">overturned restrictions established by lower courts on the issuing mass subpoenas to ISPs</a> during <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-case-judge-is-a-former-riaa-lobbyist-and-pirate-chaser-110328/">her first week on the U.S. D.C. District Court</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/92474/Sueing-14000-P2P-users-to-SAVE-CINEMA">previously</a>, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/05/riaa-extortion-why-the-only-rico-they-fear-is-suave.ars">known</a> <a href="http://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-years-later">results</a>). Beryl Howell was recently employed as an RIAA lobbyist and Executive Managing Director and General Counsel at the pirate chasing company Stroz Friedberg. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.102406Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:17:49 -0800jeffburdgesPsst. Hey buddy? Can we borrow $75,000,000,000,000?http://www.metafilter.com/101896/Psst%2DHey%2Dbuddy%2DCan%2Dwe%2Dborrow%2D75000000000000
<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650&amp;Manhattan_Federal_Judge_Kimba_Wood_Calls_Record_Companies_Request_for__Trillion_in_Damages_Absurd_in_Lime_Wire_Copyright_Case">Earlier this month, thirteen record labels tried to claim that</a> Limewire was liable for between $400 Billion and <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/24/record-industry-limewire-could-owe-75-trillion-judge-absurd/">$75 Trillion</a> in damages. (For some perspective, the world's GDP in 2011 is expected to be a mere <a href="http://hothardware.com/News/Record-Labels-Claim-Limewire-Liable-For-75-Trillion-in-Damages/">~$65 billion.</a>) Judge Kimba Wood called the assertion <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215074/RIAA_request_for_trillions_in_LimeWire_copyright_case_is_absurd_judge_says">'absurd'</a> in a <a href="http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/limewiredamagesorder.pdf">14 page opinion.</a> <small>(pdf)</small> <i><a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/limewire-sued-75-trillion/">Judge Kimba Wood made clear in a 14 page opinion that she found the request "absurd" and claims that it stretches copyright laws to their breaking point.</a> She didn't entirely side with the defendants, though, and said the damages should at least be one damage awarded per work, rather than per instance of infringement, which will still form quite a hefty bill. The defendants seriously-but-humorously note that the "plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877."</i> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.101896Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:30:16 -0800zarqWeb Search by the people, for the peoplehttp://www.metafilter.com/100036/Web%2DSearch%2Dby%2Dthe%2Dpeople%2Dfor%2Dthe%2Dpeople
<a href="http://yacy.de/">YaCy</a> is a <acronym title="Peer-to-peer">p2p</acronym> search engine. It is fully <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Lessons-from-WikiLeaks-decentralize-decentralize-decentralize-1153977.html">decentralized</a>, so it's quite difficult to censor. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.100036Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:15:02 -0800-An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America...http://www.metafilter.com/93456/An%2Dobject%2Din%2Dthe%2Dsky%2Dspreads%2Dradiation%2Dover%2DNorth%2DAmerica
<a href="http://vodo.net/pioneerone">Pioneer One</a> is an original series from the writer and director of <a href="http://www.lionsharemovie.com/about/">The Lionshare</a>. In one sense, it is an experiment in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_funding">crowdfunded</a> "television", beginning with a <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pioneeronetv/pioneer-one-pilot-episode-for-dramatic-series">$6000 KickStarter budget</a>. In another sense, it is an experiment in using a peer-to-peer distribution model (i.e., <a href="http://blog.vodo.net/the-long-version/">VODO's</a> "<a href="http://vodo.net/watch-vodo-films">DISCO</a>"). The show's pilot, released two weeks ago, which can be <a href="http://vodo.net/pioneerone">downloaded or streamed</a>, has been a huge success; is currently <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-only-tv-show-becomes-huge-success-100702/">the best-seeded show on BitTorrent, and already has had well over 1 million downloads</a>. <em>An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover will have implications for the entire world.</em>
The pilot episode can be torrented:
<a href="http://vodo.net/media/torrents/Pioneer.One.S01E01.REFIX.720p.x264-VODO.torrent">Pioneer.One.S01E01.REFIX.720p.x264-VODO.torrent</a>
<a href="http://vodo.net/media/torrents/Pioneer.One.S01E01.REFIX.Xvid-VODO.torrent">Pioneer.One.S01E01.REFIX.Xvid-VODO.torrent</a>
<small>(note: the <em>scene-friendly</em> file-naming.)</small>
Or <a href="http://veehd.com/video/4117770_Pioneer-One-S01E01-2010">streamed</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.93456Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:07:28 -0800tybeetWhat if copyright law is more complicated then a damn flower?http://www.metafilter.com/86097/What%2Dif%2Dcopyright%2Dlaw%2Dis%2Dmore%2Dcomplicated%2Dthen%2Da%2Ddamn%2Dflower
<a href="http://nastyoldpeople.blogspot.com/">Take my movie—please.</a> Nasty Old People is a Swedish movie about just that. However, it's been <a href="http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5117424/Nasty.Old.People.2009.XviD">released freely on the web</a> by its creator, Hanna Sköld, under a Creative Commons License, being the first Swedish film to do so. The CC License it is under allows the movie to be redistributed, screened, remixed- anything you want, as long as Hanna and the rest of the team behind the movie is credited.
Going on a "pay as much as you feel like model", the creator has so far gotten back about 2,000 euros from the internet community- a little more then 20% of <a href="http://nastyoldpeople.blogspot.com/2009/10/on-front-page-again.html">the bank loan the creator took out to make the film.</a><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-shows-love-to-nasty-old-people-091011/"> Not to mention popularity:</a> the film has been downloaded 30,000 times in over 100 countries.
It's a kick in the face to the MPAA, whose cries that sites like The Pirate Bay are "killing entertainment" have been largely disregarded in the success stories of these indie efforts. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.86097Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:31 -0800AskibaRIAA vs. Jammie Thomashttp://www.metafilter.com/82575/RIAA%2Dvs%2DJammie%2DThomas
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10268199-93.html">Jammie Thomas to pay RIAA $1.92 million.</a> Found guilty of willful copyright infringement, the jury awarded the RIAA $80,000 each for 24 songs. This is up from $220,000 in the first trial (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/65288/No-Such-Thing-as-a-Free-Lunch">previously</a>). Ars Technica has a <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/jammie-thomas-retrial-verdict.ars">good review</a> of the case. Kiwi Camara, her most recent lawyer, intends to press on with his <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/lawyers-plan-class-action-to-reclaim-100m-riaa-stole.ars">class action suit</a> against the RIAA, along with his old Harvard prof <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/cnesson">Charles Nesson</a>, also involved in the <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/tenenbaum-p2p-circus-judges-indulgence-is-at-an-end.ars">Joel Tenenbaum piracy case</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82575Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:42:34 -08006550My, it seems you have uncovered a periodicals repository!http://www.metafilter.com/73492/My%2Dit%2Dseems%2Dyou%2Dhave%2Duncovered%2Da%2Dperiodicals%2Drepository
<a href="http://www.mygazines.com/">Mygazines</a> is for <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/19/mygazines/">sharing magazines online</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73492Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:19:56 -0800goodnewsfortheinsaneCanada, the final frontier of file-sharing?http://www.metafilter.com/71444/Canada%2Dthe%2Dfinal%2Dfrontier%2Dof%2Dfilesharing
FileSharingFilter: With the possible exception of <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/52420/Pirate-party">Sweden</a>, Canada is today's frontier upon which the war of file-sharing legality is waged, with the greatest number of file-sharers per capita, and a steady increase in the number of persons who partake (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada">according to the OECD</a>). Historically, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada#2004:_BMG_Canada_Inc._v._John_Doe">CRIA's own piracy campaign</a> (2004) was given birth only one year after the <a href="http://www.eff.org/riaa-v-people">RIAA began suing individuals</a> (2003) for participating in peer-to-peer file distribution. Unlike the RIAA, the CRIA was <a href="http://grep.law.harvard.edu/articles/04/04/01/0411227.shtml">shot down by the courts</a>, establishing a sort of precedent in favour of the end-user which has been upheld ever since, and indeed <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/11/12/canada-p2p-policy/">even reinforced</a>. However, we may be seeing the beginning of the end as <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/backdoor-to-banning-all-canadian-bittorrent-sites-071125/">QuebecTorrent now fights the good fight</a> to prevent a legal precedent outlawing Canadian BitTorrent trackers. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71444Wed, 07 May 2008 05:52:21 -0800tybeetNo more posts until Matt starts paying uphttp://www.metafilter.com/70458/No%2Dmore%2Dposts%2Duntil%2DMatt%2Dstarts%2Dpaying%2Dup
<a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3648813.ece">Home <s>taping</s> downloading is killing <s>music</s> authorship.</a> The <a href="http://www.societyofauthors.org/index.html">Society of Authors</a> warns that authors will simply stop writing if they aren't compensated for piracy of their work (<a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080401-why-authors-and-publishers-need-not-fear-online-piracy.html">as unlikely as that seems</a>). Perhaps they should follow the example of <a href="http://opinion.latimes.com/bitplayer/2008/03/jim-griffins-wa.html">Jim Griffin</a>, newly hired at Warner Music to persuade broadband providers to attach a <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/03/27/Warners-New-Web-Guru">$5 per month surcharge</a> for the benefit of the major labels, in exchange for halting the lawsuits that have thus far been their mainstay weapon against piracy. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70458Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:47:10 -0800Horace RumpoleYa'll n----- gonna make me leave the game. I thought ya'll loved mehttp://www.metafilter.com/68757/Yall%2Dn%2Dgonna%2Dmake%2Dme%2Dleave%2Dthe%2Dgame%2DI%2Dthought%2Dyall%2Dloved%2Dme
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnKGLVAKkXs">Ghostface Killah begs his fans to buy his new album.</a> He figures that if he has 100,000 myspace friends then he should have at least 30,000 early sales. He doesnt and tells downloaders that they should "cop" the CD at the store even if they've downloaded it. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68757Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:48:42 -0800damn dirty ape